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Literaturas contemporâneas de língua inglesa
	A second area of concern in twentieth-century drama is that of the individual´s search for ---------- in an unfriendly outside world, and the difficulty and fear of communicating with other individuals.
		
	
	happiness
	
	properties
	
	ideals
	
	abilities
	 
	identity
	
	Which genre does 'A Streetcar Named Desire' belong to?
		
	
	novel
	 
	drama
	
	poetry
	
	short story
	
	chronicle
	The stream-of-consciousness novel is said to be the literary expression of a ------------- doctrine in that nothing is certainly real except one's own existence
		
	
	social
	 
	psychological
	
	industrial
	
	historical
	
	sociological
	
	
	
	
	Postmodern works are seen as a response against ______________ thinking and _____________ approaches to literature.
		
	
	Modernist/Realistic
	
	Modernist/Enlightenment
	
	Medieval/Puritan
	 
	Enlightenment/Modernist
	
	Puritan/Realistic
	
	
	Considering the different periods of literary development, in which one characters are seen as more important than action and plot?
		
	
	Puritanism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Modernism
	 
	Realism
	
	Post-Modernism
	
	
	The beat generation was a literary group from the 1950s until the early 1960s. Choose the option that does not describe a characteristic of the beat generation.
		
	 
	It is a post-WW2 era movement.
	
	Allen Ginsberg "Howl" is among the best known examples of beat literature.
	 
	One of the iconic places of the beat generation was New Jersey.
	
	The term "Beat generation" was introduced by Holmes in a 1952 essay on his novel "Go".
	
	Jack Kerouac explained that "Beat" meant being socially marginalized and exhausted ("beaten down") and blessed ("beatific").
	
	Postmodern literature can be associated to the writing that emerged in a post-WW2 era. Which one of the characteristics below does not fit this movement?
		
	 
	It focuses on a romantic view of society.
	
	Postmodern literature is seen as a response against Enlightenment.
	
	Paranoia is a major themes in postmodern writing.
	
	There can be a presence of an unreliable narrator.
	
	Postmodern literature is characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation and paradox.
	
	Vladimir Nabokov¿s novel "Lolita" is one of the most important works and controversial fictions of the 20th-century. From the options below, which one incorrectly describes the postmodernist characteristics of the novel?
		
	
	Suspicion and denial of traditional values.
	
	The search for the missing body and carefully depicted details.
	 
	Symbolic configuration of the leading character.
	
	The complicacy of subject matter.
	 
	The romance between the protagonists.
	
	_____ is the author of several books including The house on Mango Street, Caramelo, loose woman, and, most recently, Have you seen Marie? She is the founder of two organizations that serve writers, the Macondo Foundation (now administered by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center). Choose the alternative that correctly fills in the blank
		
	 
	Sandra Cisneros
	
	Tony Morrison
	
	Jane Austen
	
	Zadie Smith
	
	Virginia Woolf
	
	
Cyberpunk literature features advanced technology and science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the -------------------.
		
	 
	social order
	
	economical order
	
	political order
	
	education
	
	nature